Checkbox for "Install Everything"
jdow
jdow at earthlink.net
Sun May 20 22:22:57 UTC 2007
From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
> jack wallen wrote:
>
>>>>> Can we please, Please, **___PLEASE___** have that option back for
>>>>> F7? It makes installation so much easier and faster...
>>>>
>>>> Clearly you missed the discussion wherein it was resolved by the
>>>> OCD police that an install everything button is the worse possible
>>>> heresy imaginable.
>>>
>>> I guess they have concluded that fedora is no longer usable as a
>>> general purpose multi-user machine and you can only run it as a
>>> specialized server or a pc-like desktop.
>>>
>> which is a decision that might very well have pushed me over the edge
>> into switching to a new distribution.
>
> The checkbox I want is "assume dozens of people will be using this box
> for development and office work in a 24x7 shop - if they want to run
> something that isn't installed, they'll call your cell phone at any
> hour". That gives the right perspective against wasting a few dollars
> worth of disk space.
Les, is that as in having multiple remote X sessions from "diskless"
workstations to the box or as in multiple serial terminals?
{^_^} Curious person wants to know.
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